Hey there, fellow internet traveler.

I'm Ben, a 20 year old student, originally from New York. Currently situated in the wonderful city of Boston, I am pursuing a dual degree in Computer Science and Interactive Media. I'm on a constant mission to create and impart my message to the masses through technology. I like to build things for and on the internet, especially if it involves art or the visualization of data.

Data always has a story to tell and I'm looking for new, innovative and creative ways of doing just that.

Work

Bloglovin

Summer '13Fullstack Developer

Bloglovin is an aesthetically pleasing RSS reader community, focusing on visual content.Working with a great, international team, I lead the development of several new features from start to finish. This included user following, the friend's feed, and single post pages. I oversaw the release of these features to a production userbase of 2 million+.

DIY.org

Fall '12 - Spring '13Fullstack Developer Intern

A great, educational social network for young kids who have a passion for creating and doing. In this remote internship experience, I learned a gread deal about the proper construction of application and API architeceture, as well as exploring a production use-case for socket.io and real-time message broadcasting. I worked specically on a social feature for the stream (twitter like mentions), handling the development from the back to the front end.

Tools used: NodeJS, Redis, Socket.IO, MySQL.

Poptip

Summer '12Fullstack Developer Intern

Poptip is a marketing tool to track engagement and gauge sentiment with twitter. I worked on various aspects of the product functionality. I implemented the user account page, subscription payments with stripe and visualizations for the results dashboard.

Tools used: NodeJS, D3.js, MongoDB.

Deko Design

'11 - OngoingWeb Development Contractor

Freelance web development through a small design agency. Worked with an assortment of clients from a wide variety of creative industries, including: LA Armory Show, Kelsey's Kitchen, Elanus Capital LLC., Moving Picture Institute, etc.

Projects

Open Source Software

Hover over a circle to find out more about the project or select it to go to that project's page on Github. Or just drag the circles around as you please. Take a look around, or better yet, submit an issue, perhaps even a pull request!

MFFM

Javascript (ReactJS), LevelDB

Taking advantage of leveldb's client side storage and reddit's simple json API, MFFM is a minimal javascript music player that creates playlists and streams music from your favorite subreddits (works best with musically inclined subreddits, like r/music, r/jazz, r/hiphopheads). Using React was a first for me, but I thought that its system of modularity and extensibility made it really easy to architect the structure of my application.

HiphopJS

Javascript, Node

A node API module that exposes the RapGenius data in an object oriented fashion. My plans are to use this module to power some music/hiphop related data visualizations.

Lute

Javascript, Node

Lute is a task-based library for processing and manipulating audio using SoX, a Unix command line executable easily installed with homebrew.

Derrida

Javascript, Canvas

A computer art experiment, inspired by the deconstructionist philsopher, Derrida. Deconstructing classical art through modern methods of distortion, manipulation, animation and more. Made use of the BonsaiJS library, which provides many helpful shortcuts for manipulating SVG graphics with javascript.

Fadeaway

Javascript

A front-end library written to fade elements in and out as they are scrolled through the browser's viewport. A crossfader for your divs!

Node-fliptop

Node

Fliptop provides customer intelligence. This module was written to provide a simple to use node interface for their REST API.